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Suriname: Technical Assistance Report on Government Finance Statistics Mission (December 6-17, 2021)

June 7, 2022

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Suriname: Technical Assistance Report on Government Finance Statistics Mission (December 6-17, 2021), (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2022) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

At the request of the Suriname authorities, a remote technical assistance (TA) mission took place during December 6–17, 2021. The mission was conducted in coordination with the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department. The main objective of the mission was to assist the Ministry of Finance and Planning (MFP) and the Central Bank of Suriname (CBS) to improve the quality of the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) in view of the IMF program. The main tasks were to (i) conduct a diagnostic assessment of the current GFS and public debt compilation process,(ii) explain and reduce statistical discrepancies, (iii) analyze data on arrears and reassess their treatment in GFS, (iv) review the integration of stocks and flows of the gross debt; and (v) update the public sector institutional table, and (vi) deliver a workshop on GFSM 2014 framework and (PSDS).

Subject: Economic and financial statistics, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Fiscal accounting and reporting, Government finance statistics, International organization, Monetary policy, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM), Stocks

Keywords: CBS accounting report, Fiscal accounting and reporting, Government finance statistics, Government finance Statistics mission, IMF's Statistics Department, Staff team of the International Monetary Fund, Stocks, Suriname debt management office

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    25

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2022/160

  • Stock No:

    1SUREA2022003

  • ISBN:

    9798400210792

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685